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ahem if you check mobile dev history you will find Nokia did the same thing with open source Symbian, etc..

No viable successful open source mobile OS gives equal access to public and OEM partners to a private tree



Well, if Nokia boasted about Symbian's openness, they were in the position to be criticized too. It's mostly a PR problem.


"No viable successful open source mobile OS gives equal access to public and OEM partners to a private tree"

This is a true statement but you've set the bar pretty low there with 4 qualifiers.


And look how well that turned out for Nokia.

Oh, wait...




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